List of Battle of the Somme Victoria Cross recipients

List of Battle of the Somme Victoria Cross recipients

During the Battle of the Somme, 51 Victoria Crosses were awarded to British and Commonwealth soldiers.

These were awarded to

# Noel Godfrey Chavasse
# Bernard Freyberg
# John Cunningham
# William Frederick Faulds
# Leo Clarke
# William Barnsley Allen
# Tom Edwin Adlam
# Roland Boys Bradford
# Arthur Seaforth Blackburn
# Donald Simpson Bell
# Eric Norman Frankland Bell
# Eugene Paul Bennett
# William Ewart Boulter
# Archie Cecil Thomas White
# Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson
# Theodore William Henry Veale
# James Youll Turnbull
# Thomas George Turrall
# George Sanders
# William Henry Short
# Adrian Carton de Wiart
# William La Touche Congreve
# Donald Forrester Brown
# Thomas Cooke
# John Leak
# Henry Kelly
# Thomas Alfred Jones
# John Vaughan Campbell
# Geoffrey St. George Shillington Cather
# Gabriel George Coury
# Thomas Hughes
# George Evans
# John Leslie Green
# Frederick McNess
# John Vincent Holland
# Martin O'Meara
# Claude Charles Castleton
# Albert Gill
# Joseph John Davies
# Frederick Jeremiah Edwards
# John Chipman Kerr
# James Miller
# Robert Edward Ryder
# Walter Potter Ritchie
# James Cleland Richardson
# David Jones
# Stewart Walter Loudoun-Shand
# Robert Downie
# Robert Quigg
# William Frederick McFadzean
# henry james forrest


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